Where: Nei Mongol, China (41.3° N, 119.7° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 111.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 66.0 Ma)
• "Barremian-Aptian, ca. 125 Ma)" based on age of Lujiatun Beds; stratigraphic provenance questioned by Fowler et al. (2011), who suggested a Late Cretaceous age is possible.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, gypsiferous, micaceous, tuffaceous, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: "privately collected" and reposited in the Long Hao Institute of Geology and Paleontology collection.
Primary reference: P. C. Sereno, L. Tan, S. L. Brusatte, H. J. Kriegstein, X. Zhao and K. Cloward. 2009. Tyrannosaurid skeletal design first evolved at small body size. Science [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91404: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.09.2009, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Ellimmichthyiformes indet. Grande 1982 | |
Reptilia | |
Raptorex kriegsteini n. gen. n. sp.
Raptorex kriegsteini n. gen. n. sp. Sereno et al. 2009 coelurosaur | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam |